Smokin' Hot

Ok so I did this a few days ago but am just getting a chance to share it!  This is one of my favorite colors by essie, a great shade of grey :)  I also am trying out a new top coat that my friend +Beth Adams has told me about before called, Seche Vite.  I actually LOVE this top coat and may be changing my mind on my favorite top coat.  It's much smellier then my Sally Hansen but it goes away once it's dried, it has great shine, and I have had this color on my nails for 3 days now and you can see I don't have any chipping yet!  Over all I'd say I'm in love :)

xoxo Lea

Matte Polka Dots

So I was on Pinterest and came across these adorable polka dotted nails and since I got my dotting tool from Sephora I wanted to try it out!  I also have yet to do a review for you guys on my matte top coat so I thought I'd incorporate that into this look :)

What I found on pinterest:

I used my Essie Protein Base Coat of course, with "Where's my Chauffeur" by Essie on all my nails besides my ring finger, and "Butler Please" by Essie on my ring finger.  Then the opposite color for polka dots on each nails.  Then I used my Orly Matte top coat, which in theory is amazing because it can take any color and make it matte but I think I'm too in love with super shiny nails to love this.  Not only that but this Matte top coat is not very Matte.  I definitely want to try Essie's "Matte About You" and see if this will change my opinion on matte nails.

I plan on trying this again in another color combo as well!

xoxo Lea

French Tart Deco

Ok so today I did a little modified french manicure!  I used Essie "Tart Deco" to do a basic manicure first, Essie protein base coat, a thin coat of "Tart Deco" followed by a thicker layer of "Tart Deco".  Then I used Stripe Rite Gold, this brand of nail polish has a very fine brush to make drawing the thin tip easy.  I just carried the brush across the tip of my nail.  Doing my right hand, since I am right handed was more tricky so I kept the brush still and rotated my nail.  This made it much easier to make a clean straight line!  Then I topped off my modified french manicure with Sally Hansen Mega Shine!  Hope you enjoy!

xoxo Lea

CREEP

Just wanted to give a quick review on Creep from the Urban Decay NAKED pallet!  Love love love the color!  Great black with a tiny bit of sparkle.  I will stay the first coat does not cover well at all.  It requires a pretty thick second coat.  Over all though I love this color.

On another note I'm starting to feel like the bottles in the NAKED pallet will most likely run out and/or get dried up pretty quickly.  After one use they get a little thick and goopey :(

xoxo lea

NAKED & SIDECAR

Ok so I'm Back!  California was great but i completely forgot anything for my nails!  That was awful...  Now I'm back to testing out the Urban Decay NAKED platte!

So I did my normal manicure of an Essie Protein Base Coat, the I did a then coat of Urban Decay's "NAKED" followed by a thicker coat of "NAKED".  I top it off with a little "SIDECAR" as by Urban Decay (both off the NAKED pallet).  Then topped the whole thing off with with Sally Hansen's Mega Shine top coat!

I actually did this two days ago, I have been much busier then I normally am so I am just getting around to writing this!  But the nail polish is beautiful and has lasted three days now without chipping!!  Overall I would say I am just in love with this color combo!  I'll do reviews on both colors separately another day :)

xoxo lea

HUSTLE

So I started off this post wanting to try "SIDECAR" by Urban Decay from their NAKED pallet but i tested it on my thumb and it is completely sheer, the sparkle is beautiful don't get me wrong but the color in the bottle is just so amazing I'm sad it doesn't show...

So Instead I am going to go with "HUSTLE" by Urban Decay from their NAKED pallet, a beautiful rich purple.  I am going to do this as I would any other manicure, Essie Protein Base Coat, a thin coat of "HUSTLE" followed by a thicker coat of "HUSTLE" and finished with my Sally Hansen Mega Shine Top Coat.

 

The color is amazing but I will say if you're someone who doesn't use a top coat you will want to for this , it dries fairly dull but is beautiful with the top coat!  I also tried my tiny paint brush from Sephora. It works ok to clean up nails, nothing amazing.  I'll get back to you with how it works for detail work!

Off to CA in the AM so I'll test out the rest when I can :)

xoxo Lea

NAKED

So after a long search through Mesa's beauty supply stores and still no dotting tool I went online and found one for only 10$ from Sephora that also came with one of those tiny brushes to do clean up and some designs!  Super excited.  But even more exciting is when I was on the Sephora website I stumbled across the Urban Decay (my most favorite brand to get eye shadow from) has a Naked Pallet in nail polish! So of course I had to order that.  The reviews basically said that they were much tinnier than the customer had expected and I will agree with that.  It was also more then I would normally spend but the set does come with 6 polishes and at 26$, so at about 4.30$ a bottle it wasn't actually too bad at all!


On the left is the dotting tool, which is double sided, and the thin paint brush on the right.  They feel like good quality especially for the price so I am excited to try them out!

So as I said before these are smaller bottles and there are six in the set.  Working from left to right the shade colors are: Naked, Sidecar, Toasted, Smog, Hustle, and Creep.  I will say the colors are seriously amazing!  So excited about these!

I'm going to do a review of one of these colors tonight!  The rest will be to come!   I'll be in CA for the next 8 days so posts won't be as frequent or maybe not at all?  Talk to you soon :)

xoxo Lea